Will County will have the final say, but the Township Board this week voted to support the store's license request.

In a letter opposing the liquor license, Homer Glen Village Manager Glenn Spachman said allowing liquor sales at Aldi's may reduce similar sales from a Dominick's store just across the street from the shopping center.

He said that could negatively affect the sales tax revenue that the village receives.

Homer Glen, which does not have a municipal tax, relies on sales tax revenue to fill its coffers.

"This may seem parochial, but the sales tax is one of the most important revenue sources available to our new village," Spachman wrote in a letter to the Will County Board.

Although the shopping center is in Homer Glen's commercial district, the village does not receive sales tax revenue from it. To keep from being annexed by Lemont a few years ago, the developer agreed to be part of Will County until 2021. The north side of 143rd Street is in Homer Township, the south side, where the Dominick's is located, is in Homer Glen.